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With the rising number of cases and deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic, nations and local governments, including many across the U.S., imposed travel restrictions on their citizens. This travel restriction order led to a significant reduction in traffic volumes and a generally lower exposure to crashes. However, recent preliminary statistics in the US suggest an […]
Incident response and emergency services personnel, including police, firefighters, emergency medical services, and towing operators, are at risk of being struck by passing motorists while they are working at the roadside. Stakeholders such as AAA and others strive to reduce these professionals’ risk of being injured or killed on the job through advocacy, education, and implementation […]
This study had two overarching objectives: 1) examine changes in the prevalence of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) in vehicles owned by a large sample of older drivers; and 2) examine changes in how these older drivers learned to use and what they thought about ADAS. This study updates a previous research brief that investigated […]
A disproportionally high number of serious vehicle crashes (25% of fatal crashes) occur on horizontal curves, even though curves represent only a fraction of the roadway network (5% of highway miles) (1). This is a high-priority problem that has great interest among transportation agencies throughout the nation because their ultimate goal is to reduce serious […]
For more than a decade, the annual Traffic Safety Culture Index (TSCI) survey has contributed to deepening our understanding of public perceptions of, attitudes toward, and engagement in unsafe driving behaviors. Responses from 2020, when exceptional conditions were observed on roadways due to the COVID-19 pandemic, can provide insights on America’s traffic safety culture during the pandemic […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) – The number of Labor Day holiday traffic and boating-related fatalities continued to drop in 2021 based on a comparison of previous years, according to the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency. Troopers in both ALEA’s highway and marine patrol divisions noted the decrease, investigating only four traffic deaths and no boating deaths between […]
More and more city planners are taking into consideration smart mobility solutions to address transportation needs and central to smart transportation systems is access to real-time data. For example, self-driving cars offer independence for seniors and people with disabilities, greater road safety, cost savings through ride-sharing, increased productivity, reduced congestion, and reduced fuel use and […]
The goal of the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 17-57 is to develop a comprehensive roadmap for states to measure serious injuries in crashes. This goal has been motivated by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), which requires a set of performance metrics to include assessment of serious […]
Older adults (>65 years) account for almost 20% of the population in the United States and prefer driving as their primary mode of transportation but are at greater risk for crash-related injuries and death, compared to younger drivers. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may hold health and safety benefits for older drivers if this segment of the […]
What Do We Mean By Data Linkage & Integration? Definition: A process of combining information believed to be related to the same person (or place, family, event, etc.) from two or more separate data sources. Data linkage is one step in the process of data integration, which is the ongoing, systematic linkage of data sources […]